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In response to the recent violence in our country PPGV Executive Committee (EC) has 3 actions you need to know. The pipe bombs targeting Democratic leaders and the killings in the Squirrel Hill synagogue are actions being fueled by a rhetoric that is foreign to anything in memory. But, we have found some counter actions.…

At the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians in July, 2018 the following resolutions were passed. The PDF is found herd on pages 5 and 6 https://www.mafp.com/system/:tenant_id/ckeditor_assets/attachments/2160/original_proposed_amendments_to_mafp_bylaws_to_be_voted_on_at_2018_annual_meeting.pdf Physician Leadership in the Prevention of Gun Violence WHEREAS, In 2015 there was a Call to Action to halt this gun violence crisis by all…

Chart Notes Early Summer Part 2 Detroit Medical Center. Dr. Amrit Misra writes about our presentation earlier this year at the DMC- “It went great! The residents and faculty enjoyed the presentation quite a bit! It was a great discussion and we enjoyed having Drs. Peggs and Whitehouse come speak! It’s a very big issue…

Wear Orange Day June 2, 2018 was an impressive call to action locally. After Washtenaw County Moms Demand Action leader, Celeste Kanpurwala poignantly recounted losing her own father to self inflicted gun violence, our own PPGV member, Sonya Lewis took the stage. Lewis admitted that when asked “How to console small children about safety in schools?”…

Dear Docs, Update PPGV. This is our update after school shootings at Parkland, Fl and now Santa Fe in Texas. As bad as it is the students have really reenergized all of us and are intent on making schools and the communities safer. Let us hope! Stopped!? Over 30 Michigan bills in 2017 have…

In the wake of yet another horrific school shooting, this time at Santa Fe High School in Texas, we are again shaken to our core, outraged over the ceaseless and senseless epidemic of gun violence in this country. As we have said too many times, thoughts and prayers are wholly ineffective in preventing the over…

Two events that happened in conjunction with the Parkland, Florida shooting deaths of 17 included an interview that I did for a local TV channel that compared the two sides of the gun issue and the student outrage at a society that doesn’t keep them safe and allow them to study and learn. Here is the…

Dear Governor Snyder, In anticipation of your facing several new bills to reach your desk, HB 4416, HB 4616, and SB 366 I urge you to take a principled stand on behalf of the health of your fellow Michiganders and veto such legislation. As a member of Physicians for the Prevention of Gun Violence I…